The class list doubles as a map of the US naval industrial base. Bath Iron Works received five orders, while Puget Sound took two and other yards handled single ships. Compared with the preceding Leahy pattern, Quincy and Lockheed disappear from the construction group, while New York Shipbuilding built Truxtun after working on conventional Leahy-class ships. The changing allocation shows how repeat orders and available capacity could concentrate Cold War cruiser construction.
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Belknap shipyards show procurement concentration
The shipyard roll call shows Bath Iron Works gaining weight while some earlier builders disappear from the follow-on construction pattern.